2-year-old Georgia boy shot in the head on Christmas morning, sheriff says - CBS Atlanta
BE SAFE! Don't shoot in your backyard. And FFS, don't leave your gun out around children. You can get a biometric bedside safe for around $50.
2-year-old Georgia boy shot in the head on Christmas morning, sheriff says - CBS Atlanta
BE SAFE! Don't shoot in your backyard. And FFS, don't leave your gun out around children. You can get a biometric bedside safe for around $50.
Shooting someone from your backyard is not a “cautionary tale” it’s plain stupid and breaks one of the main rules of firearm safety…
Cautionary tale for others.
I'd say the idiot who messed up with his gun is the real cautionary tale. Not everyone’s smart enough to own a firearm, but the folks who shouldn’t have them are usually the ones who don’t have brains enough to know it.
Breaks multiple safety rules
Hot take:
I’m certainly pro 2A (though not an absolutist), but god damn these people make the rest of us look bad to a lot of the country (especially in blue states). IMO, it’s not unreasonable for someone who’s had 0 experience with guns to look at these events and think that gun ownership should be restricted. I am NOT saying that’s what I think, but there are plenty of people whose only knowledge of guns is seeing stuff like this and school shootings.
I realize that laws can’t stop 100% of these incidents (if any), but as someone who has more recently got into shooting, these are the types of incidents that I think are on the minds of people when they say they want to push for gun control. And for the record, I have always been of the opinion that most legislation won’t stop this type of stuff, but it feels like the pro-2A lobby has effectively shut down any debate on the idea of gun control, and that any legislation is evil and must be stopped.
I think of incidents like this one and think that is the strongest case for reasonable training/safety requirements. In this video, it looks like it’s the first time the guy has ever shot a gun. Eyes closed, shit form, putting tons of people in danger. It’s maddening to me that he had the charges against him dropped and can probably still own a gun.
Beyond the obvious tragedy, this is fact. This is how stupid laws come to be.
Watching Democratic reps argue that pistol braces basically function like bump stocks is painful.
I mean I'm as far left as you can get while still begrudgingly contributing to the capitalist dystopia, but even I'll admit that yeah - accidents kill people, but accidents with guns make it REAL fuckin easy.
I think a society that has more guns than people, and that fact isn't going to change any time soon, might benefit from going back to mandatory firearms safety in the public education system, at the very least.
I don't know if Oklahoma or Georgia have depraved indifference murder statutes but both theese assholes deserve to be convicted of it.
Shooting in your backyard is safe as long as you have a proper backstop, are in the middle of nowhere, and don't have kids around.
Seems these guys didn't.
When I read the story and it measured the distance in "blocks" I had to facepalm
I can shoot in my backyard because there's acers, miles, etc involved... there's no way you should be target shooting towards anything called a (residential) "block"
And then there's the guy that just left his loaded gun on a table with children around. Literally the classic example of what NOT to do. Idiots.
Even Then you should have a solid backstop of some kind and know what is behind it.
My in-laws backyard is a 100 ft mountain. That's the kind of backyard shooting that is safe.
A couple of Thanksgiving to go neighbors backyard kitty corner to us had stapled a couple of paper targets to trees and had teens and sometimes adults firing bb or pellet guns, I did not check which, at the trees from their back deck. That means directly towards my neighbor and easy ricochet into my yard.
When the wife saw it and asked is that okay, I went out and looked I just said at full volume, not yelling: "No."
Their questioning look made me explain, very briefly but again just from my deck across the yards I'm not going over there, you are shooting dangerous things at us, and the neighbors. There is no way to make that safe in your yard. Just stop. Forever.
They did, have not tried similar since then. Next action would have been 911. I am never playing around with this sort of stuff.
Years ago we came to work at the downtown library after New Year’s Eve and discovered multiple windows with bullet holes. Thankfully they were thick double pane safety glass so the inner panes were fine, but a police report was filed and the cops came around to check, saying that there was someone in the apartment building across the street who had a bullet break the bedroom window and narrowly miss them laying in bed. Eventually the idiot who had fired a pistol into the air at a party half a mile away was arrested and charged.
Yeah, I saw that first one earlier. I was like "this is why you make sure you have a solid backstop or shoot at a range."
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